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I bypassed the paywall by googling the url of the article, because they whitelist google as a referer.

Only for US IPs. If you are from Germany, even with a Google referer you don’t get the article.

I could read the article from Mexico:

https://www.google.com.mx/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=we...

Well, from Germany it seems to not work at all.

I archived it through archive.is using your link (which uses X-Forwarded-For to allow wsj to see my IP), and the page looks like this: https://archive.is/HsIiC

Works from the UK, if you are unlucky go to https://www.4proxy.us/ type in https://www.google.co.uk/search?num=100&newwindow=1&site=&so...

And it will work ;)

You seem to be right (https://i.imgur.com/VBfbvOv.png), but I thought sites accessed through HTTPS, like Google, are never sent as referers.

They are sent as referers to other HTTPS sites. But not to plain text ones.

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